Question
A character in this play questions how he will find a new pair of shoes while describing how puddles turn to “molten phosphorus” during a raid. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Michael Frayn play that opens as Margrethe Bohr asks her husband Niels “But why?” as he prepares for a meeting with another physicist.
ANSWER: Copenhagen
[10m] Copenhagen features numerous, long silences and pauses sometimes named for this author, who featured several of them in Betrayal and many of his other “comedies of menace.”
ANSWER: Harold Pinter [accept Pinter silences or Pinter pauses]
[10e] Throughout the play, Bohr is constantly reminded of his son Christian’s death in this manner. Gertrude describes Ophelia dying offstage in this manner in Hamlet.
ANSWER: drowning [accept word forms such as being drowned]
<Ganon Evans, Literature - British - Drama> ~23619~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 15.00 | 89% | 53% | 8% |